Triple

T6292626
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cockfighter E141054 entity
Predicate screenwriter P2831 FINISHED
Object Charles Willeford
Charles Willeford was an American crime novelist and cult writer known for his darkly comic, offbeat hardboiled fiction, including the Hoke Moseley series.
E583308 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: Charles Willeford | Statement: [Cockfighter, screenwriter, Charles Willeford]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Willeford
Context triple: [Cockfighter, screenwriter, Charles Willeford]
  • A. James Ellroy
    James Ellroy is an American crime fiction writer renowned for his dark, intricately plotted L.A. Quartet novels and his stylized, staccato prose.
  • B. Louis Davenport
    Louis Davenport was a prominent early 20th-century hotelier and businessman best known for founding and developing the luxury Davenport Hotel in Spokane, Washington.
  • C. Nathan Barr
    Nathan Barr is an American film and television composer known for his atmospheric scores on projects ranging from horror films to acclaimed series like True Blood and The Americans.
  • D. Lawrence Block
    Lawrence Block is a prolific American crime and mystery novelist best known for his Matthew Scudder and Bernie Rhodenbarr series.
  • E. Raymond Gardner
    Raymond Gardner was the brother of famed American actress Ava Gardner, a member of the Gardner family from rural North Carolina.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Charles Willeford
Triple: [Cockfighter, screenwriter, Charles Willeford]
Generated description
Charles Willeford was an American crime novelist and cult writer known for his darkly comic, offbeat hardboiled fiction, including the Hoke Moseley series.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Willeford
Target entity description: Charles Willeford was an American crime novelist and cult writer known for his darkly comic, offbeat hardboiled fiction, including the Hoke Moseley series.
  • A. James Ellroy
    James Ellroy is an American crime fiction writer renowned for his dark, intricately plotted L.A. Quartet novels and his stylized, staccato prose.
  • B. Louis Davenport
    Louis Davenport was a prominent early 20th-century hotelier and businessman best known for founding and developing the luxury Davenport Hotel in Spokane, Washington.
  • C. Nathan Barr
    Nathan Barr is an American film and television composer known for his atmospheric scores on projects ranging from horror films to acclaimed series like True Blood and The Americans.
  • D. Lawrence Block
    Lawrence Block is a prolific American crime and mystery novelist best known for his Matthew Scudder and Bernie Rhodenbarr series.
  • E. Raymond Gardner
    Raymond Gardner was the brother of famed American actress Ava Gardner, a member of the Gardner family from rural North Carolina.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69c008cdf2ac8190bb640c94478fb4ed completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c0642017588190b6c99c685653f6c2 completed March 22, 2026, 9:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c5e41fb4708190b6b1433e27c9276e completed March 27, 2026, 1:57 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c5e59c21148190af7dc3725d4ab903 completed March 27, 2026, 2:04 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c5e5fffda0819094354a595e3ff804 completed March 27, 2026, 2:05 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:27 p.m.